Here's Some Stupid For Lunch

Sean Hannity is in a bad place. Something has gone terribly wrong with Fox News's resident meathead. I suggest an intervention, stat.

First of all, he spends a week genuinely ginning up a dangerous situation in Nevada, much as he did a few years back in Florida with the Terri Schiavo case. Then he goes out of his way to pick a fight that he is going to lose, badly and hilariously. And then he he has a chat on his radio show with noted loon David Horowitz and the conversation quickly steps off the platform and onto the bullet train to Crazytown.

HOROWITZ: I think that's exactly accurate. There's normal anti-Semitism which has been going on for thousands of years. And this Kansas City shooter, I mean he's a Klu Klux Klanner, he's a Democrat -- lifelong Democrat, Klu Klux Klan racist and anti-Semite. But he's obviously been encouraged. The irony of course is that he killed three Christians. Um, obviously encouraged by the American left. Max Blumenthal, who is the misbegotten son of Sidney Blumenthal who worked for the Clintons in the Clinton White House, has written a book filled with Jew hatred about Israel, which this guy read and cited as one of his inspirations.

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Of course, ol' Frazier Cross there has a history of rightist batshittery dating back to the early 1980's, when Max Blumenthal was three. Sean sat there. nodding like the toy German Shepherd in the back window of the family sedan. The man needs a hug, and a Thorazine the size of a SmartCar.